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Lodi School Students Posed by Age

Date: 1877
Description: Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. It burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December 1878, b...
Photograph

Train Station at Vyatka, Russia

Date: 07 12 1917
Description: Crowd at a train station in Vyatka, Russia. Smoke in the background is coming from a burning railway ice-house.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 633-639

Date: 
Description: Rooms remembered for what they led to
What they shut out and how they silent sang
Photograph

Sawmill Fire

Date: 1894
Description: A crowd gathers and watches the sawmill on fire.
Photograph

Ortelsburg in East Prussia

Date: 
Description: The Russians destroyed the fire fighting apparatus so that the residents could not put out the flames.
Postcard

Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 16 1940
Description: A crowd of people view the aftermath of a fire that destroyed the four story brick Hotel Superior and a dozen stores and offices. Nine fire companies attem...
Postcard

Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 1940
Description: Crowds stand in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior. Automobiles are parked at the curb and more people are walking...
Postcard

Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 18 1940
Description: A crowd of people view the aftermath of a fire that destroyed the four story brick Hotel Superior and a dozen stores and offices. Nine fire companies attem...

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